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<span class="field-slideshow-caption-text">(L to R) Michael Katch, Diane Hofstede, Kristina Gronquist, Jacob Frey</span>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Ben Johnson</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The second Third Ward City Council debate was held Oct. 8 at Open Book as part of the Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association’s (DMNA) annual meeting. The candidates were sharper and more specific about their plans and viewpoints this time around.</p>
<p>Before the debate, Ward 7 City Council Member Lisa Goodman spoke to the DMNA for the last time before her ward is redistricted. Starting next year, Ward 7 will be scaled back away from the Mississippi River, losing 8,000 Downtown residents to Ward 3 in the process. State Rep. Bobby Joe Champion (DFL-59) also spoke briefly before the four Ward 3 candidates took the stage.</p>
<p>Below are some notable responses from the 75-minute forum. They have been edited for space and clarity.</p>
<p><strong>What are the most pressing issues facing Ward 3?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Michael Katch, Libertarian candidate: </strong>We want to keep single-family homes in areas like St. Anthony West, Sheridan and Beltrami. We have to look at the small-area plans that neighborhood associations drafted.</p>
<p>I feel the Minneapolis plan is a plan made up of small-area plans, so that we’re working with and cooperating with each one of these neighborhoods, and not for some individual developer. We have to make sure the culture of our neighborhoods remains, and we don’t change things to the point where we look around and say ‘When did we become Manhattan?’</p>
<p><strong>Diane Hofstede, incumbent DFL candidate: </strong>Some of the biggest challenges we face are related to public safety. Without public safety we don’t have economic development.</p>
<p>The stadium, which was a development I was an early supporter for, will bring us opportunities to fill in some of those vacant parking lots that have been in our neighborhood for over a decade. We can replace those with green space and bikeways and other kinds of transit options that are in the plan for the new stadium development.</p>
<p><strong>Kristina Gronquist, Green Party candidate: </strong>We need to look at finding creative solutions with scarce resources, which is something I can attest to doing working at Eastside Food Co-op, we had a real tough go of it the first few years.</p>
<p>I was opposed to the stadium decision, that should have been put to a referendum. I think that having the stadium where it is, was a huge strategic error as a result of poor state and council leadership.</p>
<p>I think we have possibly the lowest crime rate now in the history of Ward 3, so I’m much more concerned right now about racial profiling and police misconduct and accountability.</p>
<p><strong>Jacob Frey, DFL-endorsed candidate: </strong>We used to be a city of about 530,000, and now we’re at approximately 380,000. There’s no dispute that decline in population has contributed to economic decline, it’s contributed to safety concerns and it’s detracted from the overall vitality of our city.</p>
<p>We need to increase our overall population. Right now we have empty nesters and young professionals, but we’re missing that 30-year gap in-between. We need to find ways to retain families.</p>
<p>We do that by 1) We need safe streets 2) We need pedestrian-friendly areas 3) We need adequate green space and 4) and this may be most important, we need a great and viable option for a school.</p>
<p>I’ve been endorsed by and will work with School Board Member Jenny Arneson to make sure there is a school in the next year and a half.</p>
<p><strong>What are your thoughts on the street cars plan that was recently approved by City Council?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Frey: </strong>To be very clear, I’m for it. They say street cars are great because 1) They’re low to the ground, so a disabled individual can easily get on and off 2) It’s a wider aisle and 3) It’s a smoother ride. But that’s not why I’m for them.</p>
<p>The reason I’m for them is the “cool factor,” and the investment it will trigger. Don’t you want to say to your friend who is visiting from New York: “Fly into MSP, take the light rail down to the Nicollet Ave. stop, hop on a street car and I’ll meet you for dinner about 30 minutes later.”</p>
<p>That’s the kind of stuff that makes a city dynamic. Not to mention if you look at the other cities that have invested in street cars, they’ve seen more than $1 billion in investment along those lines.</p>
<p><strong> Katch: </strong>Wow. Let’s talk about the wow factor. It costs $130/hour to operate a street car. To operate a bus it costs $85/hour. The truth of the matter is that street cars are another thing we just plain cannot afford.</p>
<p>We have to be concerned about not going down the road of every other urban destination – Detroit, Indianapolis, St. Louis – where you have dying urban cores because the City Council went ‘Wow, let’s have an arch, let’s build a new stadium, let’s have all of this wow!’</p>
<p>Then, in the end, wow, our seniors can’t afford to live here because the taxes are too high, wow, we can’t afford police officers, wow, the garbage can’t get picked up because nobody wants to work for what we can afford to pay, or wow, we tripled or quadrupled your property taxes.</p>
<p>Let’s start thinking about how to keep our most vulnerable members – our seniors, our disabled, our families with children – without being worried about impressing my friend from Manhattan.</p>
<p><strong>Hofstede: </strong>You think these are easy decisions to make when you go sit on the council? It’s not! You think what you read in the newspapers is actually happening at the council meetings? No! It’s not! These are controversial decisions that demand for all of us to weigh in.</p>
<p>I voted for them. You want to know why I voted for them? Because based on analysis and research throughout the world it demonstrates that it delivers economic development.</p>
<p>The city of Minneapolis cannot stand still. We are competing with cities like Cincinnati. We are competing with the rest of the world, and in order to do that we have to have that ‘wow factor.’</p>
<p><strong>Gronquist: </strong>I would support street cars with some reservations. I really would like to see street cars viewed separately from transportation. I would like to see street cars viewed as economic development and look at transportation somewhat separately, because I think they’re different things. </p>
<p><strong>How would you work to improve public safety in the ward, and address Downtown’s crime perception problem?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Katch: </strong>I believe that public safety begins with us. We have to work to not become victims. I think it would be good for our law enforcement to give us training on how not to become a victim through self-defense and conceal-and-carry courses.</p>
<p>The police can’t help you until somebody hurt you. I would prefer you never be hurt. I prefer that you be the toughest possible victim in the city and that criminals go somewhere else to commit crime because you’re just not an easy target.</p>
<p><strong>Hofstede: </strong>I represented some of the toughest areas in North Minneapolis, so if anybody has an issue with crime I’ve probably dealt with it.</p>
<p>I’ve closed down businesses because they were so unsafe that people were not stopping at a stoplight, they would prefer to get a ticket or get hit by someone rather than stop because there was drug dealing going on.</p>
<p>I know what it’s like to put businesses out of business. I’ve done it. I’ve been there.</p>
<p>I know how hard it is to go a funeral of a two-year-old! What do you say to a family when their child has been shot? Those are the kinds of issues I’ve dealt with. That’s the area that I’ve represented.</p>
<p>You may look at me and say ‘look how small she is.’ I’ve heard that before and you know what? It doesn’t frighten me.</p>
<p>Every one of you are important to me, and there isn’t a day I don’t think or work on public safety.</p>
<p><strong>Gronquist: </strong>One of the best things we can do is have a lot of mixed use development Downtown. When people live downtown, downtown is safer.</p>
<p>One of the issues of my campaign that I’ve been addressing is police accountability and police misconduct and I do think that when we talk about public safety and victims, we also have to recognize that there are people in our city that feel themselves victimized by police.</p>
<p>The city has paid out some $14 million over the last decade in lawsuits, and we have almost 500 cases of misconduct without any resolution and none of them being brought forward.</p>
<p>Do our youth feel safe Downtown? Are our youth of color welcome? We don’t need any more Trayvon Martins, we don’t need any more Terrance Franklins.</p>
<p><strong>Frey: </strong>I am a proponent of diversity. It’s not just diversity in terms of people, but it’s also diversity in terms of use.</p>
<p>We need to be looking at mixed use. That is the future of every city and should be the future of Minneapolis.</p>
<p>We need gun control reform. People will say that’s just not an issue for the city, but I’ll say it is. There’s no reason we should have people walk around and unload 30 rounds before they have to reload. That’s ridiculous.</p>
<p>I’ve been the chair of the Protect Minnesota political action committee for the last few years and we’ve been going over to the legislature to be an advocate for people in our city to make sure that exactly what Council Member Hofstede was so happy pointing out doesn’t happen.</p>
<p>Journal Editor Sarah McKenzie moderated the debate. To see a full video of the debate <a href="http://www.journalmpls.com/news-feed/video-third-ward-city-council-candidate-debate-at-open-book">click here</a></p>
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<p>More than 200 people attended the event co-sponsored by the Journal and the League of Women Voters. The candidates answered questions from members of the audience on several topics, including affordable housing, transportation, their leadership style, development trends and urban farming, among other things. <img src="/sites/default/files/images/articles/03/25/2013/Ward3.gif" alt="" width="334" height="480" class="inline_image" /></p>
<p>Hofstede and Frey are seeking the DFL endorsement. The party is holding an endorsing convention at DeLaSalle High School on May 4.</p>
<p>Here’s a recap of some of the major issues covered by the candidates:</p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 14px;">On challenges facing the ward over the next decade</strong></p>
<p>Hofstede said city leaders need to continue focusing on public safety, noting Minneapolis has been blessed with reduced crime rates in recent years. She also said the city needs to continue collaborating with government partners to focus on riverfront revitalization.</p>
<p>Frey, meanwhile, said increasing the city’s population is crucial to facing the challenges of the next 10 years. At one point the city’s population was near 600,000 and now it’s roughly 387,000. He noted the ward is home to many young urban professionals and retired empty nesters and needs to attract more families. He said he supports efforts to secure a new downtown school and more green space as a means to make the ward more family friendly.</p>
<p><strong>Transportation needs</strong> </p>
<p>Frey said he’s a supporter of the proposal to add streetcars Nicollet and Central avenues. He said they would make the city more “dynamic.” Hofstede said she’s also supportive of streetcars and other transit improvements, like bus rapid transit (BRT).</p>
<p><strong>Small businesses</strong></p>
<p>Hofstede said she has been a strong advocate for small businesses in the ward, pointing to the Third Ward Neighborhoodfest, an annual event she holds at the Nicollet Island Pavilion to showcase local businesses and community groups. She said she’s worked to help business owners navigate the city approval process and said many corridors in the ward are filled with vibrant businesses.</p>
<p>Frey said “small and local businesses are the heart of our city and the heart of our ward.” He said the city’s regulatory process needs to be streamlined to make it easier for small businesses to get up and running. He said the city also needs to reach out to non-English speaking business owners to make it easier for them to launch businesses. </p>
<p><strong>Leadership style</strong></p>
<p>When asked about what his public leadership style, Frey said being a public servant is about “being incessantly involved in the community.” He pointed to his work organizing the Big Gay Race — an event that raised more than $350,000 to fight the amendment that would have banned same-sex marriage. He said if you’re not organizing, you’re not going to be an effective council member.</p>
<p>Hofstede said community organizing is part of her “DNA” and referenced her community outreach work through the Neighborhoodfest event and community meetings she holds throughout the ward. “This is not something new to me,” she said. “I have done this my whole life.”</p>
<p><strong>Constituent services</strong></p>
<p>Hofstede said constituent services is at the core of her work as a council member. Again she pointed to Neighborhoodfest and said she’s attended more than 1,000 community meetings. “It’s something you do every single day,” she said.</p>
<p>Frey, meanwhile, said if elected he would pledge to return phone calls and emails from constituents within 24 hours. He said a council member needs to be able to help facilitate a resolution for constituents who have issues that need to be addressed.</p>
<p><strong>Block E</strong> </p>
<p>When asked about a vision for the floundering Block E, Frey said the entertainment complex needs to carve out smaller spaces that could attract local retailers. He said the development has been a “total disaster.”</p>
<p>Hofstede said she pushed for the downtown library to be at the site now home to Block E before it was built. As for a new vision, she said she’s confident the owner of Block E will come up with a creative solution for the complex.</p>
<p><strong>Community engagement</strong></p>
<p>Frey said community engagement goes beyond outreach and having meetings. “It’s about affirmatively going out and talking to people,” he said, adding it’s important to reach out to people not traditionally engaged with the city. He pointed to his own campaign as an example of his ability to form connections with a diverse group of people.</p>
<p>Hofstede pointed to her work with the University of Minnesota as an example of her community engagement work. She’s reached out to students on campus moving day and engaged students on ideas for the riverfront.</p>
<p><strong>Urban farming</strong> </p>
<p>Frey said urban agriculture could be a “huge benefit” to the city. He said he’d like to see surfacing parking lots transformed into spaces for urban farmers. He also said more needs to be done to make sure all neighborhoods — not just upscale ones — have access to fresh, local foods.</p>
<p>Hofstede said she’s been a supportive of local, homegrown food her whole life. She has a garden in her backyard, is a supporter of the Northeast Farmers Market and has been involved in the Homegrown Minneapolis initiative — a citywide effort to increase the city’s capacity to grow and distribute local food.</p>
<p><strong>Top three personal achievements</strong></p>
<p>When asked to name her top three achievements, Hofstede pointed to her work collaborating with community partners to reduce crime, her leadership on efforts to improve the riverfront and her work on the development of the Central Library, which she called an “architectural wonder.”</p>
<p>Frey, a former professional distance runner, named the following as his top personal achievements: earning a spot running for Team USA, organizing the Big Gay Race to fight the marriage amendment and being named the city’s first recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. award recognizing outstanding work on social justice issues.</p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Nick Halter</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">City Council candidates are raising money furiously as DFL conventions fast approach</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Update: This article has been changed to reflect that incumbent Diane Hofstede says she will abide by the DFL endorsement in Ward 3. In a November interview, Hofstede was non-commital about abiding by the endorsement, saying “Well, I guess we’ll have to see." Her campaign manager today said Hofstede would "absolutely" abide by the endorsement."</em></p>
<p>When R.T. Rybak announced in late December that he would not run for mayor in 2013, a political game of musical chairs commenced, as City Council members geared up for runs for Rybak’s office and newcomers eyed up the seats that those Council members will leave behind. </p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Now that the music has stopped, City Council hopefuls are raising money furiously as DFL conventions fast approach. Candidates have varying philosophies on fundraising, but a few races could shape up to be expensive. </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">“I think that this is going to be an interesting year, because we’ve got a lot of movement at the top of the ticket in the mayor’s race, and we have movement in several wards in terms of having lots of candidates,” said Lisa McDonald, a former City Council member, 2001 mayoral candidate and one of the best fundraisers in recent City Council history. </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s2">Two races in particular could get very pricey. In Ward 10, incumbent Meg Tuthill faces four DFL challengers and in Ward 3, Diane Hofstede faces a young workhorse challenger in Jacob Frey.<span style="text-decoration: line-through;"> Neither incumbent has promised to abide by the DFL endorsement.</span> Tuthill has not promised to abide by the DFL endorsement, and if she doesn't get it, Ward 10 candidates could get into a spending battle that lasts until November. </span></p>
<p class="p2">In 2009, the most expensive council race in Minneapolis cost just over $80,000, and most incumbents spent $25,000 to $35,000 on relatively easy victories. In just a few weeks of fundraising for the 2013 elections, Ward 10 candidates have already raised $40,000 and Ward 3 candidates have raised $33,000. (Note: Ward 10 includes neighborhoods in the Uptown area and Ward 3 includes neighborhoods in downtown and Northeast.)</p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s3">On top of those two races, three City Council wards have become open races because their current council member is running for mayor. That will make Ward 13 of Southwest another interesting race, as Linea Palmisano and Matt Perry square off for the DFL endorsement. </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">So, how much does it cost to win a City Council race? </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s4">McDonald says somewhere between $20,000 and $50,000 usually wins a race, but those numbers could escalate if candidates don’t abide by the DFL endorsement and take their campaigns all the way into the fall. </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Tuthill posted an impressive 2012 fundraising report, raising $18,000 despite $100 limits on contributions in non-election years. Tuthill chalks up her success to her deep routes in the neighborhood, although state law does not require her to disclose donors who gave $100 or less. </span></p>
<p class="p2">“I’ve been here a long, long time and been active a long time,” Tuthill said. </p>
<p class="p2">While Tuthill’s numbers are impressive, her challengers proved they also have the resources to compete with her for DFL delegates, who will cast ballots for the Ward 10 endorsement on April 27. </p>
<p class="p2">Kendal Killian raised $11,000, the most of Tuthill’s challengers.</p>
<p class="p2">“I do think that there’s a sense in Ward 10 that folks want change, and the challengers in Ward 10 have resources nearly equal to that of the incumbent, and that is reflective to me that people in the ward want to go in a new direction,” Killian said. </p>
<p class="p2">Lisa Bender raised $6,000 and Ken Bradley raised $4,300. Neither candidate held their kick-off fundraiser before the end of the year, unlike Killian. Also, Bradley loaned his campaign $8,600 and Bender loaned her campaign $3,000. </p>
<p class="p2">Both Bender and Bradley say they’ve got plenty of resources to run strong campaigns, and both said they don’t need to raise the most money to win the DFL endorsement. </p>
<p class="p2">“I am fundraising to a budget that will give us plenty of resources to run a successful campaign,” Bender said. “I am spending most of my time talking to voters, and that’s what will win this campaign.” </p>
<p class="p2">(Note: a fourth candidate, Nate Griggs, will be in Afghanistan during the Ward 10 DFL convention and said he plans to personally finance his campaign when he gets back.)</p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s2">Bradley also said he was more focused on talking to residents, and noted that in Minneapolis, the top fundraiser doesn’t always win. </span></p>
<p class="p2">In 2001, Rybak upset incumbent Sharon Sayles Belton in the mayoral race despite being outspent $419,000 to $230,000. Betsy Hodges in 2005 defeated McDonald in Ward 13, despite being outspent $90,000 to $55,000. In 2009, Kevin Reich spent just $18,000 to win the Ward 1 race in Northeast, despite being outspent by Larry Ranallo by over $10,000. </p>
<p class="p2">Those races have one thing in common: The candidate who was outspent won the DFL endorsement. </p>
<p class="p2">Many onlookers say it’s nearly impossible to win a Council race in Minneapolis without the backing of the DFL. In 2009, 12 out of 13 candidates who got DFL endorsements won elections. Only Cam Gordon, a Green Party candidate, won without DFL backing and in that race, the DFL did not endorse a candidate. </p>
<p class="p2">That’s why candidates are trying to raise money fast this winter. They need enough money to launch a website, send mailings to potential DFL delegates and to print campaign literature that they can hand out at the convention. </p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s3">McDonald (who is backing Meg Tuthill in Ward 10) says getting money right away can be helpful. </span></p>
<p class="p2">“Early money is always good because it deters people from running against you,” she said. </p>
<p>In Ward 13, Matt Perry raised $6,400 in the last 4.5 days of 2012, plus gave his campaign a $2,000 loan. His campaign manager, Jen Borger, said getting early funding will help Perry focus on talking with voters in the coming months. </p>
<p>His opponent, Linea Palmisano, didn’t raise any money in 2012, but she made very clear that she’ll be able to raise $20,000 to $30,000 before the Ward 13 convention on May 4. </p>
<p class="p2">Palmisano didn’t decide to run until around Christmas, so she said she didn’t have time to form a fundraising committee and secure donations in 2012. </p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Palmisano hosted a campaign kick-off on Feb. 7, she has sent out fundraising mailers and has a handful of small house parties scheduled for the next few months. Perry also has smaller meet-and-greets scheduled. </span></p>
<p class="p2">Candidates will be able to raise much more money in 2013. In non-election years, individuals can only make $100 donations. In 2013, they are allowed to donate $300. </p>
<p class="p2">Killian says some of the high fundraising totals are because 2013 could be a big turning point in Minneapolis city government. The city will get a new mayor and at least three new council members. </p>
<p>“It’s the first real kind of open debate we’ve had about the future of the city in a number of years — in at least 10 or 15 years,” Killian said. “Usually that type of excitement is reflected in fundraising numbers as well.”</p>
<p><em>Note: This story has been updated with additional information about Matt Perry's campaign. </em></p>
<p><span class="s4"><em>Reach Nick Halter at </em><em><a href="mailto:nhalter@mnpubs.com">nhalter@mnpubs.com</a>.</em></span></p>
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